All Quotes By Tag: Books

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

“So many books, so little time.”

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

“Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can’t get enough of them.”

“There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“You’re a hopeless romantic,” said Faber. “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn’t know this, of course you still can’t understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that’s what counts.”

“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.”

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”